Hacker stole data on 1,000 Canadian officials from U.S. intelligence firm
About 1,000 federal and provincial officials were victimized by December's vast cyber-theft of five million emails and other customer data from a private U.S. global intelligence firm, according to a federal memo obtained by Bloomberg News.
Almost 900 federal workers and 109 Ontario government officials were affected when computers owned by Texas-based Strategic Forecasting Inc. were hacked, says the Jan. 9 Public Safety Canada memo obtained under Access to Information.
The hackers obtained the client list of the company, also known as Stratfor, and released personal information such as emails, passwords, home and office addresses and credit-card data, according to reporter Andrew Mayeda. The memo warns that officials whose data were stolen have had their finances and privacy put at risk, and could become "victims of specific and targeted attacks" in the future.
